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Author : Paul de Wolf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110905311
Author : Paul P De Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0686225279
Author : Paul P. De Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Benue-Congo languages
ISBN : UVA:X001180190
Author : John R. Watters
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101009
This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies. This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular branches Kainji, Plateau, and Bantoid. In the case of Bantoid, the particular focus is on Grassfields and the Grassfields-Bantu borderland, though other Bantoid subgroups are referenced. The potential topics for comparative studies among these languages are numerous, but this volume is dedicated to presentations on nominal affixes, third person pronouns, and verbal extensions. A forthcoming volume will provide some results of reconstructions and lexicostatistics in Cross River, exploratory reconstructions in Southern Jukunoid, and reconstructions in Ekoid-Mbe and Mambiloid.
Author : Larry M. Hyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Bamileke languages
ISBN : UVA:X000964451
Author : Konstantin Pozdniakov
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961100989
This book proposes the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system. The emphasis is placed on providing an exhaustive account of the distribution of forms by families, groups, and branches. The big data bases used for this purpose open prospects for both working with the distribution of words that do exist and with the distribution of gaps in postulated cognates. The distribution of filled cells and gaps is a useful tool for reconstruction. Following an introduction in the first chapter, the second chapter of this book is devoted to the study of various uses of noun class markers in numeral terms. The third chapter deals with the alignment by analogy in numeral systems. Chapter 4 offers a step-by-step reconstruction of number systems of the proto-languages underlying each of the twelve major NC families, on the basis of the step-by-step-reconstruction of numerals within each family. Chapter 5 deals with the reconstruction of the Proto-Niger-Congo numeral system on the basis of the step-by-step-reconstructions offered in Chapter 4. Chapter 6 traces the history of the numerals of Proto-Niger-Congo, reconstructed in Chapter 5, in each individual family of languages.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John Bendor-Samuel,Rhonda L. Hartell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015015367918
Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521770750
A major linguistic study of nominal classification systems across a variety of languages, first published in 2000.
Author : Ronald P. Schaefer,Francis O. Egbokhare
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498542739
Class Marking in Emai examines the retention, reduction, and transformation of inflectional resources pertaining to noun class in Emai, an Edoid language of south-central Nigeria. Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare demonstrate that in contrast to its Bantu relations, Emai retains form class prefixes on a relatively small group of nouns that distribute across eleven declension sets. Prefix addition rather than prefix alternation arises when ideophonic adverbials become syntactically displaced due to information structure and when Emai borrows lexical items from other languages. Reduction is evident in two primary domains: agreement class or gender and prefixes that alternate to express form class and grammatical number. As for transformation, it characterizes tonal, nominal and pronominal domains. Putting Emai and its noun class system into a broader cultural and archaeological context of historical language change, this book explores what it means to be a Benue Congo language with a reduced inflectional system.
Author : Colette Grinevald Craig
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228741
This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems. The classical view of categories was that they were discrete and based upon clusters of properties which were inherent to the entities. In recent years this conception has been challenged in different fields. By now prototype theory has established itself as one of the main approaches in linguistics. This volume brings classifier systems to the attention of cognitive psychologists dealing with the phenomenon of human categorization. For the general linguist it shows what can be learned from classifier systems into any theory on the nature of language organization, it will challenge some of the most entrenched notions in the field of linguistics, notions of what language is made of and how it functions.
Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri,Chan, Eugene S.L.
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785412741
The papers in this collection present the numeral systems of more than twenty Nigerian languages. The papers mainly emanate from a workshop on the numeral systems of Nigerian languages organised by the Linguistic Association of Nigeria during its 23rd Annual Conference which was held at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The workshop arose from awareness created by Dr. Eugene S.L. Chan on the need for Nigerian linguists to document this severely endangered but very important aspect of natural languages. The quantum of mathematical computations - addition, multiplication, subtraction, or a combination of two or all of these - involved in the numeral systems of Nigerian languages is remarkable. The papers reveal that a variety of numeral systems do exist, such as: binary, decimal, incomplete decimal, duodecimal, quinary, quaternary, ternary, mixed, body-part tally systems, and much more. The book is a resource about how different languages manipulate their numeral systems.
Author : Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211781
This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.
Author : Rainer Vossen,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191007385
This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one third of the world's languages, usually classified into four phyla - Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan - which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume explores all aspects of research in the field, beginning with chapters that cover the major domains of grammar and comparative approaches. Later parts provide overviews of the phyla and subfamilies, alongside grammatical sketches of eighteen representative African languages of diverse genetic affiliation. The volume additionally explores multiple other topics relating to African languages and linguistics, with a particular focus on extralinguistic issues: language, cognition, and culture, including colour terminology and conversation analysis; language and society, including language contact and endangerment; language and history; and language and orature. This wide-ranging handbook will be a valuable reference for scholars and students in all areas of African linguistics and anthropology, and for anyone interested in descriptive, documentary, typological, and comparative linguistics.
Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199283087
This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. Its distinguished authors investigate the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and reveal the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. The chapters cover Ancient Anatolia, Modern Anatolia, Australia, Amazonia, Oceania, Southeast and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan. Africa. - ;Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use; and in the fo.
